Browsing by Keyword "Istanbul"
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After Bath: Crossing the Social Skin
(2022-02-02)Water is an immersive body, and bathing is a medium of not only physical but also psychical identification and connection, through the bodily proximity created between strangers. The thesis explores notions of body and ... -
MEASURING THE IMPACT OF AIRBNB ON LOCAL HOUSING RENTS: THE CASE OF ISTANBUL, TÜRKIYE
(2023-05-17)Both academia and the business world have paid increasing attention to the growth of the sharing economy. They were often driven by their curiosity about how this new business model shapes market mechanisms. Quite a number ... -
Negotiating Matrimony: Marriage, Divorce, and Property Allocation Practices in Istanbul, 1755-1840
(2013-09-30)This dissertation studies the construction of the marital bond and its dissolution with respect to the normative stipulations of the shari'a, social and moral constructions, and the cultural formations during late-eighteenth ...